- Well, we know policymakers have been debating offshore wind for not years but decades.

Why is this the right time to pursue it?

How come everybody's talking about it right now?

- Yeah, it's very big right now.

Green energy and especially wind is big.

He sees it as a new job sector in an industry where people can be retrained to work in.

That's mighty appealing at the end of a recession when unemployment is still as high as it is during the pandemic.

And really things are aligning policy-wide.

Not only do we need a boost in clean energy to meet the goals that Governor Baker just signed into law last week, as far as what kind of energy we use and our climate emissions.

Baker himself is on board with many of the same, for many of the same reasons Mariano is.

It's clean power jobs here in Massachusetts, and it's an industry that Massachusetts could really take advantage of and be a leader based on our geography.

But really the biggest reason we're talking about it right now is Joe Biden.

The industry has been stalled for years under President Trump, and so at a national level, it's now ready to grow again.

The federal government is behind his expansion, and Mariano's a moderate Democrat.

He doesn't really like to use the progressive rhetoric.

He's never gonna call this kinda thing the Green New Deal or anything like that, but he likes jobs.

He likes new energies.

He likes keeping Massachusetts a leader, and that's kind of what he's all about.